You see more sitting still than chasing after.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man.

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.